PoEVault's Lacerate Gladiator Passive Skill Tree and Gem Links (PoE Mirage)

March 17th, 2026, 00:10

Path of Building

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Find our recommended tree from the comfort of Path of Building, available here: https://pobb.in/i8A9gJKkJ8TR

Medium budget can be found here:https://pobb.in/LvFcYsOaZvyd

High budget can be found here: https://pobb.in/18_tE0Z_50Ag I need to stress, though, that this is only for people who really like lacerate. The build’s main strength is, and will always be, league start. But if you really enjoy it and you want to stick with it, this is what I would do.

For the people interested in taking Lacerate entirely too far, there is charge stacking. As that variant was entirely solved by streamer Ronarray, I see no reason to make a PoB for it and instead refer you to his video guide for charge stacking.
You can find the video here Ronaray Charge Stacking

Passive Skill Tree

The most essential keystone is Resolute Technique, which offers a permanent solution to accuracy at the expense of no longer being able to critically strike enemies. Bleeding ticks cannot deal Critical Strikes, which makes this keystone even more well-suited to this build than most.
The second essential keystone only comes into play after Merc Lab, when we swap to shield, is Versatile Combatant. This reduces our maximum chance to block attacks/spells by 10 but causes us to gain spell-block equal to 2% per 1% overcapped chance to block attacks. Essentially it allows us to get spel lblock through large amounts of attack block.
The third essential keystone is Blood Magic. This removes all mana from our character entirely and causes any and all costs to be paid, and reserved, on our life bar. This solves our mana problems entirely. We get around the “no aura” problem through Eternal Blessing Support.

Gems

Lacerate is our main skill and the only 6-Link necessary to incorporate into the build. It works perfectly fine with both 1-Handed and 2-Handed weapons, but we prefer 1-Handed axes by default. The aura we run is Pride Pride. This is our only aura.

Other links are relatively flexible and they mostly consist of buffs.

Lacerate 6-Link

You can opt for either Melee Physical Damage Support or Ruthless Support — they have relatively equal damage output, our preference is Melee Physical Damage Support as feel it is a little less restrictive in playstyle.

Lacerate swap this for Lacerate of Haemorrhage as soon as possible. It is just a straight up upgrade.
Volatility Support
Brutality Support
Fortify Support
Cruelty Support
Melee Physical Damage Support

Fortify Support Is the support you would want to coin, in which case you replace it with Deadly Ailments Support
There will be a textbulk at the end of the gem section explaining this in more detail.

Aura 2-Link

Nuke 1-Socket

War Banner – This now slowly builds, so we only use it on tanky targets

Mobility 4-Link

Utility 2-Link

Enduring Cry – We only use this to generate endurance charges now
Urgent Orders Support – This is to speed up EC cast time

Utility 1 Link

Blood Rage Stick this wherever you have an open socket

1 -Socket Mobility

Frostblink – Keep this at level 1

Utility 4 – link

Cast when Damage Taken Support – keep at level 1
Purifying Flame – keep at level 1 we use this for Consecrated ground
Cold Snap – keep at level 1 we use this for chill to reduce action speed of things we’re fighting
Molten Shell -keep at level 7 to stay in line with CWDT

League Specific Changes, coins

With the arrival of the endgame rework in 3.28, we got a new currency, coins.
Three of them allow us to imbue gems with level 1 versions of support gems, intelligence, dexterity and strength related respectively to their types of coins.
Some of these will open up options for builds to offload their worst supports, and for some builds, the level modifiers are still too strong. You’re probably wondering which coins are relevant to this specific build, so let’s talk about that.
The first, and perhaps most important thing to note, is that this system has a lot of RnG involved. It’s random which possible support gem from the respective colours list you get. It is going to take a lot of attempts to hit the correct gem, and it will get expensive. As a result, coins are, in our opinion, a relatively late addition to most builds, as the cost is prohibitive.
With that out of the way, let’s talk about coins specific to this build.

The main gem in the build, Lacerate of Haemorrhage, gets a pretty decent boon from this. We can coin Fortify Support, and we no longer have to run it.
It’s important to note that Quality is incredibly important for this gem; do not coin a Lacerate of Haemorrhage that isn’t 20% quality.
The process is highly RnG related. I’d suggest you simply buy a gem that has 20% quality and the imbue.

Other notable options here include:

All of these are worse than the Fortify imbue, as Fortify imbue lets us drop our worst gem and still keep the behaviour it grants. The others are budget options and are only worth considering if Fortify is too expensive for you.

As for other gems in the build, there are a few options to consider here.
If you want to include something not currently in the sockets, you can consider the following imbues:

Shield Charge – Faster Attacks Support imbue. This opens one socket
Enduring Cry – Urgent Orders Support or Lifetap Support. This also opens up one socket.
Do note that the expense you’re imposing on yourself here means you need a genuinely good reason to do this.

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